Donations Wish List
At the Neighbourhood Centre, we rely upon and cherish your gifts. As a small local
agency, a donation of needed office equipment or a children’s game will make a big
difference in how we deliver our programs and how efficiently we use our financial
resources to serve the community. Currently, these are our needs:
DONATE GOODS, FUNDS & MATERIALS
Family Support Program
Item
TTC Tickets for
workshop participants
Cost
100.00
Use
Mothers and caregivers to attend parenting
programs, especially in the winter months
Art Easel with
Chalkboard for kids to
do their own paintings.
OR:
500.00
Children’s playgroups and future after-school
programs
Books in different
languages: KoreanEnglish, BangladeshiEnglish.
500.00
Children’s playgroups, literacy programs in
partnership with elementary schools
Rental bus for
seasonal activities,
e.g. Skating, skiing,
hiking, etc.
500.00
Special outings for children and their families,
especially on PA Days, March Break, summer
holidays – an opportunity for families to leave
the neighbourhood and explore
Sponsor Books for
1000.00
The HOLA program was developed by three
HOLA program
different departments in the Toronto District
School Board: Speech-Language Pathology
Services, Early Years, and English as a Second
Language. The program is intended to enrich
teacher-parent partnerships, assist children in
early literacy by using books that are translated
in English and the child/parent’s first language
and materials/games that assist in developing
early literacy.
Parents and teachers have the same goal of
helping children to excel in school. The activities
can be done in English or in the family’s first
language. When children understand words
and concepts in their first language (e.g., Urdu,
Tamil, Spanish), they learn the English-equivalent
words and concepts faster. Parents can be fully
engaged in their children’s education.
Rental of space for
Children’s programs
1000.00
Rental space to expand our capacity to offer
programs to low-income and newcomer
children and their parents; currently, programs
have to be shortened as we share space with
two other users
Community Services and Outreach
Item
Cost
Use
Purchase office
supplies for outreach
materials, posters,
flyers
100.00
Reach isolated community members to
advise about program and community
opportunities to develop skills and connect
with other community members
TTC tokens for
volunteers
100.00
To purchase tokens to support volunteers
who help to deliver programs and support
the community
Sponsor new
workshops for lowincome and
newcomer community
500.00
Organize information sessions or workshops
for community members on diverse topics
such as financial literacy, healthy eating,
balcony gardening etc. With $500, we can
plan for three such workshops.
members
Sponsor families to
provide Good Food
Boxes – healthy fruits
and vegetables that
are too expensive for
community members
1000.00
A good food box pilot project can be
undertaken. The goal of the project is to
promote access to affordable and fresh
fruits and vegetables for low income families
to be able to meet their nutritional needs.
We can provide good Food Boxes for free to
5 (five) low-income families every 2 weeks.
The length of the pilot project would be 6
months.
Total projected cost:
5 boxes on each distribution day x 6 months
@ 2 distributions a month= 60 boxes.
If we provide small vegetables and fruit
boxes, the estimated cost would be = 60 X
$13= $780
If we provide large vegetables and fruit
boxes, the estimated cost would be = 60 X
$18= $1080
Elderly Person’s Centre (EPC)
Item
Cost
Use
Purchase 50 copies of
Help Is Here
100.00
Purchase Arts and
Crafts supplies for
seniors and contract
Arts & Crafts leaders
500.00
To purchase 50 “Help is Here” copies: a
resource guide for seniors with information
on services provided by a wide variety of
GTA organizations. Seniors find this booklet
very useful. It costs $142- $145 in
total/season and is published twice a year.
Arts and Crafts Instructors and Program
Materials for seniors - Will be used for Arts
and Crafts programs (Skilled theme based
instructors and arts and craft materials for
the fundraising events in spring, summer and
winter)
Breakdown:
$40 honorarium/theme * 4 theme based
instructors = $160 (approximately)
$30 program materials/monthly * 12 months
= $300 (Approximately)
Purchase additional
instructor hours to offer
yoga to more lowincome seniors
1000.00
Our seniors’ yoga program has shown
significant success and seniors report health
and wellness benefits from it. We now have
been invited to offer additional yoga classes
in a building that houses many seniors who
cannot come to our main office location.
We would like to expand our offering of
yoga and tai chi to seniors who cannot
afford to pay for these classes. Another 11
classes would cost $990.